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The message below is an example of the “dying widow” scam. The scammer claims to be a very wealthy woman with no children, and she wants your help to distribute her fortune to charity after she dies. You can have a percentage of course. Alas, there really is no rich widow and no fortune: there is only a scammer trying to find a way to empty your wallet.

I greet you with the name in the name of the LORD Almighty the giver of every good thing. Good day and compliments of the seasons, I know it is true that this letter may come to you as a surprise. Nevertheless, I humbly ask you to give me your attention and hear me well., but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefull yas the decision you make will go off a long way to determine my futur eand continued existence. I am Mrs. Jovann Mafra widow of 58 years old suffering from long time illness. I have some funds I inherited from my late husband, the sum of (23.5 Million Dollars) and I needed a very honest and God fearing who can withdraw this money then use the funds for Charity works. I WISH TO GIVE THIS FUNDS TO YOU FOR CHARITY WORKS. I found your email address from the internet after honest prayers to the LORD to bring me a helper and i decided to contact you if you may be willing and interested to handle these trust funds in good faith before anything happens to me.

Having known my condition I decided to donate this money to Churches, organizations or good person that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want you to use this money for Churches, Charity organizations, orphanages, widows and other people that are in need. l took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money . Moreover, my husband relatives are not close to me since I develop a Cancer problem and it had been their wish to see me dead in order to inherit his wealth since we have no Child. These people are not worthy of this inheritance. This is why I am taking this decision.

I want your urgent reply to me so that I will give you the deposit receipt which the COMPANY issued to me as next of kin for immediate transfer of the money to your account in your country, to start the good work of God, I am desperately in keen need of assistance and I have summoned up courage to contact you for this task, you must not fail me and the millions of the poor people in our todays WORLD. This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved,100% RISK FREE with full legal proof. Please if you would be able to use the funds for the Charity works kindly let me know immediately. I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality and trust in this matter to accomplish my heart desire, as I don’t want anything that will jeopardize my last wish. I want you to take 40 percent of the total money for your personal use while 60% of the money will go to charity.I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality and trust in this matter to accomplish my heart desire, as I don’t want anything that will jeopardize my last wish. Any delay in your reply may give me room to look for another good person for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my ill-health. Your urgently responses is needed through this email address: = ( mrs.jovannmafra@gmail.com )

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This is an example of a fear-based scam — a tried and true technique of scammers everywhere. ACT NOW, the scammer shouts (posing as a bank official), because you’re in danger of losing a fortune! Unfortunately there is really no fortune, and no bank official — there’s just someone trying to hook you into a fraudulent scheme that will end with him picking your pocket.

I hereby send to you the information submitted by Mrs. Diane Thill From Philadelphia , with an application to receive the payment of $41.2million United States Dollars on your behalf. Please as a matter of urgency, you are required to verify the following information and inform us if you are aware or know anything about this.

1. Did you instruct one Mrs. Diane Thill From Philadelphia, whose information’s is below, to claim and receive the payment on your behalf?

2. Did you sign any “Deed of Assignment” in her favor thereby making her the current beneficiary with the following account details: Account Name: Diane Thil, A/C #USD114-1025567-8, Bank Name:The Sovereign Bank, Philadelphia, Swift Code: SCBL 11K111.

Finally, you are hereby advised to indicate to this honorable office with immediate effect, if you are the person that instructed Mrs. Diane Thill to come forward for the claim of these funds

You are to call with the above Phone Number for more clarifications. You are hereby to send to this office your full information so that we the entire members of this bank will verify and to check Mrs. Diane Thill own file which he sent to us,so that we can know the real owner of this said amount.

We are very much aware that you are still in contact with some other office(s) and we hope you are fully ready to stop every communication with any other office(s) in order to enable us help you receive this fund.Call me on the Telephone number +234 708 2750967 for further details after you have send in the requested information as directed above.We wait to hear from you as soon as possible.If you know you are ready to comply fully with every directives of the bank in order to complete this,then you are kindly advised not to respond as this not a joke.

Mr. George Hamington
Director of Foreign Operations
Eco Bank Plc

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This is a typical bank scam message — in this case claiming to come from Taiwan — and it asks for your help in “re-profiling” certain funds. Sounds like a sophisticated business maneuver. Unfortunately the message is from a scammer, not a bank, and the only thing to be “re-profiled” is your wallet, by transferring its contents into the scammer’s pocket.

I am Mr. Wong Shiu Ki, an Account Officer with the International Bank of Taipei and I have a very sensitive and confidential brief for you from international bank of Taipei, Taiwan. I am requesting for your partnership in re-profiling funds I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are coming via Bank of Taipei Taiwan.

This is a legitimate transaction; you will be paid 30% for your Management Fees”. If you are interested, please write back and provide me with your confidential telephone and fax numbers, Country and I will provide further details and instructions. Please keep this confidential, as we can’t afford more political problems. Finally, please note that this must be concluded within two weeks. Please write back promptly to my private email: Mr_wong_shiuki@163.com Please do not reply if you are not interested.

Please if you are not interested delete from your mailbox.
I look forward to it.
Regards,
Mr Wong Shiu Ki.
Mr_wong_shiuki@163.com

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Scammers often use the names of real people in their scam messages to make the messages look legitimate. It turns out that there really is a US Air Force general named Susan Helms, but she of course has nothing to do with the message below, which is a standard type of “mystery scam” message. The scammers are just using her name to try to get you on the hook so they can pick your pocket.

How are you doing? My names are Susan Jane Helms, Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and a former NASA Astronaut, i saw your email and decided to contact you on something important, am a woman of integrity, am not contacting you for childish games, rather i have a profitable something to share with you.

Please do not fail to contact on this email address : ( susanjjhelms@hotmail.com )

Kindly reply back.

Have a nice day as am expecting your feedback soon.

Lt General, USAF. Susan J. Helms.

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The message below is a classic example of a “mystery scam” message. The scammer gives you almost no information (except a promise to transfer $21 million dollars to you). He’s just trying to get you to reply, and once he has you talking, he figures he’ll be able to come up with a way (any way) to pick your pocket.

contact me for information to transfer 21.4m to you. I will tell you more information after I get your reply.

Harley

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You don’t have to know German to be able to recognize the message below as a standard advance-fee scam message. Human beings are pretty much the same everywhere, which means that there are scammers in every country, and there are likely scam victims too — it’s a global criminal enterprise.

My name is Mr. Mohd Suhail Amar Suresh Abdullah. I am the Group Chief Technology Officer of Maybank in Malaysia and a trained auditor, the for the bank as a grere unit covering the entire region. I have been taking pains to find out your contact with the deceased surname. I am writing to you for a safe and profitable proposal, which will benefit both of us if you? Are interested and trustworthy RDIG, please reply to? Ck and opposite to be profitable over the benefits of this situation. We will omit obtain further details of the transaction until we account a Best? Your desire to participate. You can Be sure that we decide in this situation all the time and there will be no risk if you daf itself? R to get on board.

Needless to say is strictly confidential crucial if we successfully reap the immense benefits of this transaction.

Please reply to my pers PERSONAL E-mail address: herrmohd@yandex.com

kind regards,

Lord. Mohd Abdullah

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This is a typical example of a “cancer scam” message. A rich businessman (so he says) is dying of cancer and wants your help in disposing of his fortune. Alas, there really is no rich businessman and no fortune: there’s just a scammer sending phony messages like this randomly to thousands of people (like you), hoping one of them will take the bait.

I am from Portugal I have been diagnosed with cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared for.

But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it.

I would want to have a Personal and Trustworthy Relationship with you, as I intend and willing to empower the change of ownership for the transfer of my Deposits to your personal possession for further Investment and Charity Disbursement to the Less Privilege and Homeless write me via my mail: diego.rrrr70@gmail.com

I will send you the photos of me and my very hopeless and selfish family a member, including my wife who I learnt is getting married to my personal friend and attorney, Thank you for your due consideration. God be with you. You can reach me through my private email address at diego.rrrr70@gmail.com

Yours Brother

Sr. Diego De Martinez

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The scam message below adopts a kind of reverse psychology that is common in many scam messages. What the scammer wants to do is get you on the hook and talking to him, so he can eventually reel you in. This message, therefore, doesn’t offer you money, it says that some previous offer of money has been cancelled — you missed your chance! He hopes you’ll reply and ask what happened, and then … he’ll pick your pocket.

Message: Attention, We have deposited the check of your fund ($4.700,000,00USD) through money gram after our finally meeting regarding your fund, All you will do is to contact money gram director DR.JOSE MALLAM via (moneygramofficebenin60@gmail.com ) He will give you more direction on how you will be receiving the funds daily. Remember to send him your Full information to avoid wrong transfer such as:

Though Mrs. Susan Kent has sent $7000 in your name today So contact their Director DR.JOSE MALLAM as soon as you receive this email or call him +229-9697-3503 and tell him to give you the Ref. Number, to pick the $7000 Please let us know as soon as you received all your fund,

Best regard
Mrs Grace Joe

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This is a “mystery scam” message that purports to offer you a business deal of $25 million. But what it is about? You can be sure that it’s “about” picking your pocket — the only “opportunity” that “Ebrahim Talib” has for you is the opportunity to be separated from your money.

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The message below is a typical example of a charity scam message, similar to the “You have won the lottery!” scams that many people are familiar with. Sad to say, the message isn’t from a real charity official, and you haven’t received a multi-million dollar donation.

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Important Note

Please be aware that scammers often use the names of real people and legitimate businesses in their fraudulent messages. Why? To lend an air of legitimacy to their criminal enterprise. Just because the name of a real person or a real bank or a real government agency appears in a scam message that doesn't mean the person or organization in question is involved in the scam in any way. The scammers are just stealing these names in order to make themselves look legitimate.